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Food for Thought from the Good Foundations and PwC Breakfast workshop on what makes a nonprofit ‘well-run’

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Published November 18, 2015

  Author: Maree Perfrement   Earlier this week I attended the Good Foundations breakfast workshop on what makes a NFP organisation ‘well-run’. Being in the midst of grant writing and … Continued

Jo’s International Fundraising Congress Experience

Author Jo Garner

Published November 5, 2015

Have you seen Jo’s story over at Pro Bono about her IFC experience in Amsterdam in October this year?   {loadposition blogsocialshare}

The Magic of Connection in Grant Writing

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Published October 27, 2015

   Author: Charlotte Francis   Introducing our newest staff member Charlotte, our Grants Strategist on the ground in Victoria.    How do you engage donors and funders with your cause? What … Continued

Be Old-School, Write a Letter!

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Published September 30, 2015

Author: Kate   A friend of mine who has just completed her PhD in creative writing always writes me the most wonderful letters and postcards. Two weeks ago I got a … Continued

Kate and Jane chat about Social Benefit Bonds

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Published September 25, 2015

    We’re trying something new on the blog this week: Kate and Jane attended a workshop together recently, and had a lot to discuss about it… Kate: Jane, it’s … Continued

Laying Foundations for Change – #GivingWhileLiving

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Published September 7, 2015

Author: Kate Sunners This month Harriett and I attended the Atlantic Philanthropies’ Laying Foundations for Change panel, hosted by Koda Capital. Peter Hoj and Peter Coaldrake, Vice Chancellors of UQ … Continued

Four lessons for non-profits from regional development

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Published September 1, 2015

Author: Jane Symonds Last week I was at the Australian Regional Development Conference, to present on some research I did at the University of Queensland, on communication and rural community … Continued

Community Grant-Seeker Training is here!

Author Jo Garner

Published August 28, 2015

Author: Jo Garner This week we’re celebrating the launch of our new online training for small, community-based non-profit organisations (raising less than $100,000 per year). In response to increasing requests … Continued

Nonprofits need long-term HR vision too: Professional development and the Nonprofit employee.

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Published July 9, 2015

Author: Kate Sunners According to research from the UWA’s Centre for Social Impact on Work Learning, nonprofit employees are significantly less likely to undertake professional development. Only 58% of non … Continued

Valuing volunteers for in-kind contributions: how to figure out $ values for volunteer hours when you’re not a maths nerd.

Author Kate Sunners

Published June 9, 2015

The grants research team has spent a lot of time recently entering Council grants from around Australia and New Zealand into our GEM Portal. One thing that most Council grants … Continued

Grants research: keeping calm in a sea of information

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Published May 19, 2015

Author: Kent Chan The first thing I do each day when I get to work (after making a strong coffee, of course) is open the research inbox that we use … Continued

The power of face-to-face communications

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Published April 30, 2015

Author: Kate Sunners As part of a university research project, I was lucky enough to spend half a day with an indigenous education not-for-profit this month…. I had four hours … Continued

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